Whomp-whomp: #AI PCs make users less #productive - People just don't know how to wrangle #chatbots into useful things, #Intel says

Source: theregister.com/2024/11/22/ai_…

As the #study itself explains: "Many AI users spend a long time identifying how best to communicate with AI tools to get the desired answers or response. Organizations providing AI-assisted products must offer greater #education in order to truly showcase the potential of 'everyday AI'."

#news #technology #Software #Problem #economy #fail #user #work #business

Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive

People just don't know how to talk to chatbots to get them to do useful things efficiently, Intel says

^{Thomas Claburn (The Register)}

Don't sell your soul to #Microsoft. Change from #Windows10 to #Linux and keep your old #computer running!

🐧💻🖥️👍

#gnu #linux #os #software #change #tux #windows #windows11 #meme #memes #nerd #advice #freedom #foss #floss

Have you heard about the latest losers? theregister.com/2024/11/20/dli…

#dlink #cybersecurity #Router #vpn #internet #Software #Firmware #fail #bug #economy #Problem #security #news

D-Link tells users to trash old VPN routers over bug too dangerous to identify

Vendor offers 20% discount on new model, but not patches

^{Connor Jones (The Register)}

#Orbot lies brazenly to the user

Source: guardianproject.info/apps/org.…

Orbot is a very useful app for using the #TOR #network on #Android. With all due respect to floss and the achievements of the altruistic developers, I still think it's downright cheeky to lie so blatantly to the user.

The bridge functionality, which can be optionally activated, allows users from the censored Internet, where all TOR servers are blocked, to connect anyway.

Orbot is writing:

It will not drain your battery

This is wrong. There will be more background activity for this connections and this will cost battery power. This is a damn lie!

It will not slow down your internet

This is wrong. There will be connections from others and they will slow down your internet. With a big bandwidth you won't note it but not everyone have high speed internet. This is a damm lie!

🤥

#news #fail #Software #gui #Problem #onion #privacy #snowflake #bridge #documentation #user #lie #internet

People Can’t Tell #AI From #Shakespeare — They Prefer AI’s Verse, #Study

Source: forbes.com/sites/torconstantin…

#poem #news #technology #Software #science #humanity

People Can’t Tell AI From Shakespeare — They Prefer AI’s Verse, Study

A study in Nature finds that participants couldn't distinguish AI drafts from works by 10 famous poets. And the participants also preferred the AI's writings.

^{Tor Constantino, MBA (Forbes)}

We play around with different #AI #image #generators. On the picture above you can see the results of different users on the same prompt but with different models. You can participate or just watch in our group with the following URI: click here - or shorter link here: is.gd/aigroup

You need to install the #FLOSS #software #SimpleX.chat: f-droid.org/en/packages/chat.s…
If you don't want to use the app on your #Smartphone you can find a #desktop version here: simplex.chat/downloads/#deskto…

#technology #hacker #girl #art #artwork #group #join #chat #picture #generator #prompt

Asciinema 3: Installation der neuesten Version des Terminal Session Recorder

Asciinema hat sich als das Tool der Wahl für das Aufzeichnen und Teilen von Terminal-Sessions etabliert. In der kommenden Version 3 wird es einige spannende Neuerungen geben, die dir noch mehr Kontrolle und Möglichkeiten ...

techniverse.net/blog/2024/11/a…
#Linux #Software #Asciinema #Cargo #Kompilieren #OpenSource #Recorder #Rust #Stream #Terminal

Microsoft is practicing greenwashing 😱👎⚡🔌

#meme #energy #waste #microsoft #windows #ai #nuclear #powerplant #future #greenwashing #environment #emissions #earth #climate #fail #economy #scandal #problem #software

#Amazon confirms #employee data stolen after #hacker claims #MOVEit #breach

source: techcrunch.com/2024/11/11/amaz…

“Amazon and AWS systems remain secure, and we have not experienced a #security event. We were notified about a security event at one of our property management vendors that impacted several of its customers including Amazon. The only Amazon information involved was employee work contact information, for example work email addresses, desk phone numbers, and building locations,” Montgomery said.

If not even a company like Amazon can store its data securely, is there any security at all? Amazon doesn't lack money or experts, but it does seem to lack secure software.

#fail #cybersecurity #problem #software #internet #news #economy #hack #cloud

Amazon confirms employee data stolen after hacker claims MOVEit breach | TechCrunch

Amazon has confirmed that employee data was compromised after a “security event” at a third-party vendor. In a statement given to TechCrunch on Monday,

^{Carly Page (TechCrunch)}

#AI #song for #Grammy

Source: grammy.com/news/2025-grammys-n…

#Record Of The Year
#Award to the Artist(s), Album Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s), and/or Mixer(s), and Mastering Engineer(s) if other than the artist.

NOMINEES:

"Now and Then" – The #Beatles

Giles Martin & Paul McCartney, producers; Geoff Emerick, Steve Genewick, Jon Jacobs, Greg McAllister, Steve Orchard, Keith Smith, Mark 'Spike' Stent & Bruce Sugar, engineers/mixers; Miles Showell, mastering engineer

...

The Beatles song was generated with AI.

#news #technology #Software #music #art #artist #history #future

2025 GRAMMYs: See The Full Nominations List | GRAMMY.com

The 2025 GRAMMY nominations have been announced. See the full list of nominees in all 94 categories ahead of Music's Biggest Night on Sunday, Feb. 2.

^{www.grammy.com}

W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group, nice!

w3.org/blog/2024/sustainable-w…

#ClimateChange #Sustainability #ClimateCrisis #Energy #WebDevelopment #Software #Web #W3C

Sustainable Web Interest Group is Formed

Announcement of the formation of the W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group.

^W3C

#China could do better but can't 😐

Source: lightreading.com/smartphones-d…

#Technology #android #mobile #smartphone #huawai #harmony #Software #news #Problem

Why is my air fryer spying on me? Which? reveals the #smart devices gathering your data - and where they send it

Source: which.co.uk/policy-and-insight…

The Aigostar air fryer wanted to know gender and date of birth when setting up an owner account, again for no clear reason, but this was optional. The Aigostar and #Xiaomi fryers both sent people’s personal data to servers in #China, although this was flagged in the #privacy notice.

Why must smart technology be in the #cloud - is the advantage of this only surveillance? 🤔

#news #technology #Software #economy #fail #spy #bigdata #bigbrother #orwell #Problem #security

Hundreds of #code #libraries posted to #NPM try to #install #malware on dev machines

source: arstechnica.com/security/2024/…

The malicious packages have names that are similar to legitimate ones for the Puppeteer and Bignum.js code libraries and for various libraries for working with #cryptocurrency.

Dependency hell 👎👿

#software #problem #development #library #dependency #security #cybersecurity #news #cybercrime #attack

Hundreds of code libraries posted to NPM try to install malware on dev machines

These are not the the developer tools you think they are.

^{Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)}

It is our #mistake. We should double check it. Not only double, but triple check it. One more thing I want to add is that people should not consider Google as the standard. #Google is just a search engine, and any person can post anything on it. Don't just believe it. Just cross check!

Source: wired.com/story/ai-halloween-p…

And at the end it's your mistake that Google is full of #fake so don't blame the search engine for it!

#responsibility #ai #check #journalism #Press #messenger #Problem #Software #news #technology #future #Trust #Halloween

Never ending story about the #security of fitness app...

Source: thehindu.com/sci-tech/technolo…

#news #stava #cybersecurity #sports #Problem #Software #privacy #politics #fail #online #cloude #surveillance #bigdata #economy

Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says

Le Monde reported that movements of some of the world’s most powerful leaders could be tracked online through a fitness app used by their bodyguards.

^{The Hindu}

#McDonald’s busted ice cream machines can now be fixed — legally / An exemption by the #Copyright Office will let franchisees work around restrictions to fix the finicky machines on their own.

Source: theverge.com/2024/10/25/242793…

Repairing shouldn't be illegal in a democracy!

#News #usa #justice #law #Software #repair #fail #problem

Copyright Office exemption makes McDonald’s ice cream machines repairable

McDonald’s ice cream machines could finally get easier to repair thanks to an exemption granted by the US Copyright Office.

^{Emma Roth (The Verge)}

#Kali #Linux drops the #i386 kernel and images, starting with the 2024.4 release. Users should shift to #amd64 for ongoing support and updates.

Source: linuxiac.com/kali-linux-phases…

I wonder where the tutorial is, how to install amd64 on a 32bit system 🤔

#advice #news #os #Software #technology #fail #question #architecture

Kali Linux Phases Out Obsolete 32-bit Architecture

Kali Linux drops the i386 kernel and images, starting with the 2024.4 release. Users should shift to amd64 for ongoing support and updates.

^{Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)}

#Cisco reports more than 35 #vulnerabilities in #firewall products

Source: heise.de/en/news/Cisco-reports…

Don't forget that you use firewalls to increase #security.

#news #Software #vulnerability #bug #fail #cybersecurity #Problem #fail #qa #economy

Cisco reports more than 35 vulnerabilities in firewall products

Cisco's ASA, Firepower and Secure Firewall Management Center have security vulnerabilities, some of which are critical. More than 35 updates are now available.

^{Dirk Knop (heise online)}

📷 #Germany has unleashed self-learning¹ AI camera systems on it's citizens.

AI + Mass Surveillance = Human Rights violations Made in Germany:
🇬🇧 madeindex.org/blog/ai-mass-sur…
🇩🇪 madeindex.org/de/ki-massenuebe…

Sources:
¹youtube.com/watch?v=IXQ_E6AZTX…

#Tech #Privacy #Government #Artificialintelligence #Software #IT #News #Mannheim #Deutschland #KI #MadeinGermany #HumanRights #Surveillance #kunstlicheintelligenz #uberwachung #AI #camera #regierung #nachrichten #georgeorwell #german #deutsch #BadenWurttemberg #parody